1988 U.S. Cesarean-Section Rate at 24.7 per 100 Births — A Plateau?

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Abstract
Data derived from the 1988 National Hospital Discharge Survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics lead us to believe that the rate of cesarean section in the United States has stabilized. The 1988 rate was 24.7 cesarean sections per 100 births, which is not significantly higher than the rate of 24.4 in 1987. The 1988 rate of 17.5 for primary cesarean sections is almost identical to the 17.4 rate of the two previous years. And the 1988 rate for vaginal births per 100 previous cesarean sections was 12.6, as compared with 9.8 in 1987 — the largest annual increase ever observed.

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